‘Relative Realities’ at EMPAC’s Filament festival

One of the intriguing installations that was part of EMPAC’s Filament festival was “Relative Realities” by Volkmar Klein in cooperation with Thomas Grill. In the piece, which launched at 6:30 p.m. Friday (above) a CRT monitor swings on a pendulum, and as it moves it shows a scene — a statue surrounded by leafy vines or bushes — and what is shown on that screen appears to be following the swing of the pendulum.

This effect may be difficult to see in the image on the screen above, because the arc of the swing was so great, but on Sunday afternoon, below, the pendulum wasn’t swinging so widely and the effect is a bit clearer.